Definition of "agent-in-place" []

• An operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "You deny any complicity in running, or servicing, any Russian agent-in-place for the Russian service?"
• "According to my SMOTU agent-in-place in the NYPL, Kirkus didn't wax enthusiastic over DRAGON'S EYE."
• "For the first time, CIA had an agent-in-place inside the ChiComm Politburo, and that was about as good as it got."